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I Was a Lab Monkey on a Space Station
When I was picked for the project, a long-term isolation study set in conditions of low earth orbit. My section of the tiny space station was completely self-contained. There was food, sleeping arrangements and zero gravity exercise equipment all for my personal use. The single entrance to the rest of the satellite was locked in the sealed. It could be open from either side but on my side it required a code. Mission Control had also supplied me with books and films as, like Conrad had told me at the first briefing, the experiment was into isolation, not boredom.